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Go-Ahead profits hit by Southern strife
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/southern-rail-turmoil-hits-go-ahead-profits-9rrtq36j3?shareToken=6a84a9614d3b9d2365fba1b139b66 55e
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Go-Ahead profits hit by Southern strife
In message , at 13:40:33 on Fri, 8 Sep
2017, Recliner remarked: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/s...hits-go-ahead- profits-9rrtq36j3?shareToken=6a84a9614d3b9d2365fba1b139b66 55e "It forecast that margins would reach up to 1.5 per cent." From an orderly queue to take on this vastly lucrative business! -- Roland Perry |
Go-Ahead profits hit by Southern strife
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In message , at 13:40:33 on Fri, 8 Sep 2017, Recliner remarked: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/s...hits-go-ahead- profits-9rrtq36j3?shareToken=6a84a9614d3b9d2365fba1b139b66 55e "It forecast that margins would reach up to 1.5 per cent." From an orderly queue to take on this vastly lucrative business! The DfT might struggle to find any bidders for SN when the franchise is next tendered. It's become a real poisoned chalice. -- |
Go-Ahead profits hit by Southern strife
In message , at 11:35:58 on Fri, 8 Sep 2017,
Recliner remarked: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/s...hits-go-ahead- profits-9rrtq36j3?shareToken=6a84a9614d3b9d2365fba1b139b66 55e "It forecast that margins would reach up to 1.5 per cent." From an orderly queue to take on this vastly lucrative business! The DfT might struggle to find any bidders for SN when the franchise is next tendered. It's become a real poisoned chalice. They are struggling to find bidders for many franchises. But apparently there's still a few gullible foreigners who haven't caught on yet. (eg Trentinalia). -- Roland Perry |
Go-Ahead profits hit by Southern strife
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on Fri, 8 Sep 2017, remarked: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/s...s-go-ahead-pro fits-9rrtq36j3?shareToken=6a84a9614d3b9d2365fba1b139b66 55e "It forecast that margins would reach up to 1.5 per cent." From an orderly queue to take on this vastly lucrative business! The DfT might struggle to find any bidders for SN when the franchise is next tendered. It's become a real poisoned chalice. Isn't that the unions' objective, to get the franchise handed to DOR, nationalisation by the back door? It's already nationalised by the back door - DfT is in charge and Govia just run the trains for a fixed fee. Very little would change if the Govia senior managers were replaced by DOR senior managers (where would the latter come from, anyway)? -- Roland Perry |
Go-Ahead profits hit by Southern strife
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 15:32:01 on Fri, 8 Sep 2017, remarked: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/s...s-go-ahead-pro fits-9rrtq36j3?shareToken=6a84a9614d3b9d2365fba1b139b66 55e "It forecast that margins would reach up to 1.5 per cent." From an orderly queue to take on this vastly lucrative business! The DfT might struggle to find any bidders for SN when the franchise is next tendered. It's become a real poisoned chalice. Isn't that the unions' objective, to get the franchise handed to DOR, nationalisation by the back door? It's already nationalised by the back door - DfT is in charge and Govia just run the trains for a fixed fee. Very little would change if the Govia senior managers were replaced by DOR senior managers (where would the latter come from, anyway)? Govia, presumably, apart from one or two figureheads? |
Go-Ahead profits hit by Southern strife
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-sept ember.org, at 13:54:56 on Sat, 9 Sep 2017, Recliner remarked: "It forecast that margins would reach up to 1.5 per cent." From an orderly queue to take on this vastly lucrative business! The DfT might struggle to find any bidders for SN when the franchise is next tendered. It's become a real poisoned chalice. Isn't that the unions' objective, to get the franchise handed to DOR, nationalisation by the back door? It's already nationalised by the back door - DfT is in charge and Govia just run the trains for a fixed fee. Very little would change if the Govia senior managers were replaced by DOR senior managers (where would the latter come from, anyway)? Govia, presumably, apart from one or two figureheads? Do they swap around like that? Have Stagecoach made some of their top people redundant and sent them off to get jobs with SWR. I'm thinking here about the people in the parent company, not drones being TUPEd over from the local franchise. If everyone to do with running a franchise is TUPEd over, then almost nothing will ever change. The whole point of swapping parent companies on renewal is to bring in some new blood. -- Roland Perry |
Go-Ahead profits hit by Southern strife
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Go-Ahead profits hit by Southern strife
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In article , (Roland Perry) wrote: In message -septembe r.org, at 13:54:56 on Sat, 9 Sep 2017, Recliner remarked: "It forecast that margins would reach up to 1.5 per cent." From an orderly queue to take on this vastly lucrative business! The DfT might struggle to find any bidders for SN when the franchise is next tendered. It's become a real poisoned chalice. Isn't that the unions' objective, to get the franchise handed to DOR, nationalisation by the back door? It's already nationalised by the back door - DfT is in charge and Govia just run the trains for a fixed fee. Very little would change if the Govia senior managers were replaced by DOR senior managers (where would the latter come from, anyway)? Govia, presumably, apart from one or two figureheads? Do they swap around like that? Have Stagecoach made some of their top people redundant and sent them off to get jobs with SWR. I'm thinking here about the people in the parent company, not drones being TUPEd over from the local franchise. If everyone to do with running a franchise is TUPEd over, then almost nothing will ever change. The whole point of swapping parent companies on renewal is to bring in some new blood. You have it right, though there have been exceptions. The Northern MD, Alex Hynes, did transfer to the new franchise holder there at first though he's now gone to Scotrail. And DOR started with Elaine Holt transferring from our very own FCC. She then brought in her former FCC colleague Karen Boswell to run East Coast. But below them, where did the other senior DOR managers come from when it was running EC? I suspect most were from NXEC. After all, DOR had no permanent operational staff, while NXEC had people who were no longer needed by NX, but had exactly the right experience that DOR needed to run EC. |
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